Und back. Gotta get to nerding out. Been dealing with eye strain issues lately and limited my screen time, but working on it.
Aiming to work on #NecroNeonBBS this 3-day weekend for me. I made private all my WIP github repos, no one wants to see vaporware repos full of hopes and dreams.
Coding and designing #NecroNeonBBS still, working on coding a #regicide game (for the BBS and standalone, for myself anyway, I love the game but want to build a console terminal version and never made a game) and seeing how to have it support multiple players
thinking for #NecroNeonBBS I'm going to have people be assigned or they can choose a necropolis alias handle, likely at least two related words to the #BBS theme.
People can dox themselves after if they wish.
Like the idea of entering into another place and a different persona as undead :)
y'all got any #BBS suggestions for games and little things to make it interesting to log in regularly?
Assume pokemon and the link where you have a virtual pet/entity you manage may be popular? I don't want to build something lame, just brainstorming.
Something Ravenlofty? TTRPGs done over console? XP awarded to challenge victories?
I really want my BBS place to feel like an actual place, like Snowcrash's metaverse or cities in IRE MUDs like Achaea. Not 2nd life, just a baked in niche culture.
#undead #BBS #NecroNeonBBS #necropolis #horror #brainstorming
Decided to not use #libev and use #libevent instead for socket/timer/event loop/callback system. Other than I trust it more, I like the baked in #openssl support (will use for #telnet+tls later).
Additionally, going to try out sqlcipher (#sqlite3 + AES encryption baked in) for data storage. Everything will be stored in a sqlite3 database.
Using cmake and pkg-config, #C, sqlite3 (sqlcipher), libevent, and openssl.
Decided to just focus on developing the software on KDE neon distro (Ubuntu LTS) and worry about other OSes later. I spent too much time worrying about ease of build/install instructions for other operating systems instead of just deciding and moving forward.
It's not much, but I have a rough pre-MVP release plan at https://github.com/deadbeefmonster/NecroNeon_BBS/blob/monster/TODO.md
Will change as I go through it all, but it is nice to have a plan and put off doing things I can get distracted with (just knowing it is on the roadmap is good enough).
Goal for the next ~month is to identify features I want in my #BBS, prioritize them for MVP, and then create a roadmap for implementing.
I'll be coding in C using cmake with CLion IDE. Primary platforms supported are GNU/Linux, NetBSD, and OpenBSD (others should work but will be secondary).
#NecroNeonBBS stirs underground.
